Blog: Giuseppe Maxia on database normalisation and smoking

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New user registers, new set of tables is created in database. We see this database design quite often on phpfreaks forums. And each time we see it, we explain why it is wrong.

No more! From now on we can link to Giuseppe Maxia's blog [http://datacharmer.blogspot.com/], where he gives a very graphic description of what will happen to your database if you implement such design.

Read "Normalization and smoking [http://datacharmer.blogspot.com/2009/03/normalization-and-smoking.html]" and drop your habit.